Text 53923, 40 rader
Skriven 2009-03-07 09:16:06 av Jean Parrot (1:123/789.0)
  Kommentar till text 53913 av Alan Zisman (1:123/789.0)
Ärende: IT techies.
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 Alan, good morning again.

 AZ> Well, there was certainly a lot of (well-earned) overtime paid out over
 AZ> that period.

	Well, we sure wait a lot of minutes even hours in toto, when doing maintenance
on any machine, my SiL who works for CAE now, lets his machine run for 20+
hours at times, to recompile some minor correction in his coding. Here, just
doing a TI clone is alike watching grass grow.

JP> How would one know that downadup is present ?  What
JP> does it do or prevent doing ? I should Google for it.

	Jeff would be happy today, I did Google for it and filled my eyes. I also ran
it on the Vista yesterday, nothing found. There is an opinion that the pirated
copies of XP or Vista, that do not get updated are a great cause of this
spread. All my systems are updated to the max, save for SP2 or SP3 on the
Athlons, all the other updates are accepted.

 AZ> There's a lot of discussion that it seems to be setting up a network of
 AZ> infected systems for an attack on various corporations and other
 AZ> websites later in March.

	Like Gibson's DoS of a few years back ?

 AZ> I had been holding out for a 160 GB HD version, but the 16 GB flash one
 AZ> seemed cheap enough to be worth the experiment... and really, what is a
 AZ> netbook for? It's for easy portability, web access, minimal data
 AZ> storage. So I'm hopeful that the flash-drive version will let me do
 AZ> that. I wouldn't be storing the 50 GB of music and video files that sit
 AZ> on my iMac on it... and if needed (which I doubt), it can always be
 AZ> connected to an external HD.

	I have not really looked at these, are you saying that the 16 GB flash is
built-in or is it added, USB, when needed. Can it run on it ? I think that U'u
can boot off a USB key. My daughter runs a heavy PRG and elected to pay for the
160 G HD, I wonder how she makes out on that small screen.

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